OUR TEAM

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The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of a number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards and received Harvard's Distinguished Alumni Honors for his visionary contributions to humanity.

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

Javier Prieto

Javier has worked in the investment and education sectors overseeing strategic development. Javier has a keen passion for human development through education, nature and visual arts. Educated in Mexico, Australia, and the United States, he has produced documentaries focusing on lessons of multi-culturalism. Javier´s spirit is one of constantly bringing people together and promoting conversations for a better world.

Javier Prieto

Luis García

Luis García is Dean of the Graduate School of Management at EBC; oldest Business School in Mexico. Prior to his academic life, Luis, engaged on a life-long project as an entrepreneur.

Luis García

Carlos Patarroyo

Carlos Patarroyo is currently the Dean of the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá – Colombia) and the President of the Colombian Philosophical Association. He studied Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, where he also got his Ph.D and then went on to pursue his postdoctoral research on moral responsibility in Germany and Spain. Passionate for teaching and convinced that education is the best way to bring people together and build a climate of peace and understanding. He is an art lover and a witness of the power of art to touch emotions and build relationships.

Carlos Patarroyo

Patricia Acosta

Patricia is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Political Science, Government & International Relations in Universidad del Rosario Bogota, Colombia. She has a long trajectory as a planning practitioner, including key policy making positions at the Bogotá Planning Office, such as head of the City Master Plan task team and manager of the Strategic Operations office. Internationally, she has been involved in project formulation and policy analysis consultancy at the World Bank; as well as in policy research as a visiting professional at the IADB and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Professor Acosta has been a Fulbright Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT, and a JICA fellow with the HDA in Sapporo, Japan. She holds a master´s in Urban Planning, also from MIT, and a BArch from Universidad de Los Andes. At URosario, she has continued her work in training and institutional capacity building on land value capture and municipal/territorial development instruments; while in research she is currently interested in the policy linkages between habitat policy areas (neighborhood upgrading, land management and affordable housing). She is currently on a special leave of absence as technical advisor to the City Planning office for the formulation of a new Bogota Comprehensive Plan.

Patricia Acosta

Kavitha Yaga Buggana

Kavitha Yaga Buggana lives in Hyderabad, India. Her essays and short fiction have been published in River Teeth Journal, Tehelka, and Muse India Magazine. Kavitha won first prize at the 2011 Hindu Metroplus Theater Citizen’s Review Contest in Hyderabad. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a travelogue of her experience travelling through Nepal and Tibet. In previous avatars, she was a software engineer in Chicago where she worked as a software development engineer, using C++ and Visual Basic, on cellular network optimization software. She was also a database designer and has worked with Oracle, MS. Access, using SQL. She has an undergraduate and Masters’ Degree in Computer Science Kavitha has an MPhil Degree in Developmental Economics, specializing in Financial Literacy and decision making among rural populations. Her field work was in Angallu Village, Chittoor Dist, India. She also does voice-overs for short films and wishes she could spend more time in her garden.

Kavitha Yaga Buggana

Zara Houshmand

Zara Houshmand Resource Development Associate

Zara Houshmand

Kentaro Toyama

Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. Co-founded Microsoft Research, India and is a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book that argues that the intrinsic growth of people and institutions should be the primary focus of global development. Previously, Toyama co-founded Microsoft Research India, where he started an interdisciplinary research group to understand how electronic technology could support the socio-economic development of the world’s impoverished communities. The group’s projects – including Digital Green, MultiPoint, and Text-Free UI – have been seminal in ICT4D research, even as Toyama has gone on to be a vocal critic of techno-utopian hype in development. Prior to his time in India, he did computer vision research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Cambridge, UK, and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana. Toyama graduated from Yale with a PhD in Computer Science and from Harvard with a bachelors degree in Physics.

Kentaro Toyama

Emile Bruneau

After 30 years of concerted multinational effort to address ethnopolitical conflicts, we still have very little idea about what types of conflict resolution interventions work, which don’t, and for whom. Emile Bruneau is a social cognitive neuroscientist at MIT researching the neural basis of intergroup conflict, and the psychological and cognitive consequences of conflict resolution efforts. Emile Bruneau received his Ph.D. in neuroscience and now conducts his research at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT. Prior to this, he was a high school and elementary school teacher, and had extensive experience living and travelling abroad. These travels brought him to a number of conflict regions, including South Africa during the fall of Apartheid and the unfolding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Sri Lanka during a major Tamil Tiger attack. The immediate inspiration for his current research came after volunteering at a conflict resolution camp in Ireland during “The Troubles.” While the camp boasted notable successes in the form of intergroup friendships, it was also characterized by a colossal failure when a fight broke out at the end of the camp, resulting in a massive partisan brawl. Emile was left wondering what affect this program, and programs like it, actually have on partisan attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. These questions, examined through the lenses both of neuroscience and education, have inspired his current research program at MIT.

Emile Bruneau

Ulco Visser

In 2004, Ulco retired from a successful business career to launch and run The Impact Foundation. Ulco’s goal is to introduce proven inner practices into the educational mainstream. By working at the systems-level, Ulco architects collaborations between schoolteachers, research scientists and other stakeholders. Ulco’s business experience spans the fields of travel, hospitality, and medical education. From 1991-2004, Ulco was the Chairman, Executive Vice President and COO of Medical World Conferences, a company that organized a range of conferences and continuing medical education. Previously, Ulco served in multiple leadership roles at Intrav, serving the upscale travel market with customized tours to exotic global destinations. Ulco began his career in a range of management positions at the Fairmont, Hilton, and Marriott hotel chains. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Ulco counts several failed start-ups as part of the journey as well. A native of the Netherlands, Ulco has lived in the United States since 1982. He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Ulco Visser

Jan Fuller

Jan retired in 2018 as senior digital forensics investigator for the Redmond Police Department in Washington State and is pursuing projects related to improving law enforcement capabilities related to digital crime. She began conducting forensic examinations in 2003 and fondly recalls the days when 1 GB was a lot of data. She has analyzed data from thousands of electronic devices related to a wide nature of crime types. She is a member of IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) and serves on the Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee. She serves on the Board for CTIN (Computer Technology Investigators Northwest) and is certified by IACIS (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists) and FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) to conduct digital forensic investigations. She enjoys coaching and mentoring students who are pursuing careers in the field of digital forensics.

Jan Fuller

Scheduler

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The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of a number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards and received Harvard's Distinguished Alumni Honors for his visionary contributions to humanity.
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Javier Prieto

Javier has worked in the investment and education sectors overseeing strategic development. Javier has a keen passion for human development through education, nature and visual arts. Educated in Mexico, Australia, and the United States, he has produced documentaries focusing on lessons of multi-culturalism. Javier´s spirit is one of constantly bringing people together and promoting conversations for a better world.
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Luis García

Luis García is Dean of the Graduate School of Management at EBC; oldest Business School in Mexico. Prior to his academic life, Luis, engaged on a life-long project as an entrepreneur.
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Carlos Patarroyo

Carlos Patarroyo is currently the Dean of the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá – Colombia) and the President of the Colombian Philosophical Association. He studied Philosophy at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, where he also got his Ph.D and then went on to pursue his postdoctoral research on moral responsibility in Germany and Spain. Passionate for teaching and convinced that education is the best way to bring people together and build a climate of peace and understanding. He is an art lover and a witness of the power of art to touch emotions and build relationships.
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Patricia Acosta

Patricia is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the School of Political Science, Government & International Relations in Universidad del Rosario Bogota, Colombia. She has a long trajectory as a planning practitioner, including key policy making positions at the Bogotá Planning Office, such as head of the City Master Plan task team and manager of the Strategic Operations office. Internationally, she has been involved in project formulation and policy analysis consultancy at the World Bank; as well as in policy research as a visiting professional at the IADB and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Professor Acosta has been a Fulbright Scholar and SPURS Fellow at MIT, and a JICA fellow with the HDA in Sapporo, Japan. She holds a master´s in Urban Planning, also from MIT, and a BArch from Universidad de Los Andes. At URosario, she has continued her work in training and institutional capacity building on land value capture and municipal/territorial development instruments; while in research she is currently interested in the policy linkages between habitat policy areas (neighborhood upgrading, land management and affordable housing). She is currently on a special leave of absence as technical advisor to the City Planning office for the formulation of a new Bogota Comprehensive Plan.
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Kavitha Yaga Buggana

Kavitha Yaga Buggana lives in Hyderabad, India. Her essays and short fiction have been published in River Teeth Journal, Tehelka, and Muse India Magazine. Kavitha won first prize at the 2011 Hindu Metroplus Theater Citizen’s Review Contest in Hyderabad. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a travelogue of her experience travelling through Nepal and Tibet. In previous avatars, she was a software engineer in Chicago where she worked as a software development engineer, using C++ and Visual Basic, on cellular network optimization software. She was also a database designer and has worked with Oracle, MS. Access, using SQL. She has an undergraduate and Masters’ Degree in Computer Science Kavitha has an MPhil Degree in Developmental Economics, specializing in Financial Literacy and decision making among rural populations. Her field work was in Angallu Village, Chittoor Dist, India. She also does voice-overs for short films and wishes she could spend more time in her garden.
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Zara Houshmand

Zara Houshmand Resource Development Associate
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Kentaro Toyama

Kentaro Toyama is W. K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, a fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology. Co-founded Microsoft Research, India and is a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working on a book that argues that the intrinsic growth of people and institutions should be the primary focus of global development. Previously, Toyama co-founded Microsoft Research India, where he started an interdisciplinary research group to understand how electronic technology could support the socio-economic development of the world’s impoverished communities. The group’s projects – including Digital Green, MultiPoint, and Text-Free UI – have been seminal in ICT4D research, even as Toyama has gone on to be a vocal critic of techno-utopian hype in development. Prior to his time in India, he did computer vision research at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA and Cambridge, UK, and taught mathematics at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana. Toyama graduated from Yale with a PhD in Computer Science and from Harvard with a bachelors degree in Physics.
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Emile Bruneau

After 30 years of concerted multinational effort to address ethnopolitical conflicts, we still have very little idea about what types of conflict resolution interventions work, which don’t, and for whom. Emile Bruneau is a social cognitive neuroscientist at MIT researching the neural basis of intergroup conflict, and the psychological and cognitive consequences of conflict resolution efforts. Emile Bruneau received his Ph.D. in neuroscience and now conducts his research at the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT. Prior to this, he was a high school and elementary school teacher, and had extensive experience living and travelling abroad. These travels brought him to a number of conflict regions, including South Africa during the fall of Apartheid and the unfolding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Sri Lanka during a major Tamil Tiger attack. The immediate inspiration for his current research came after volunteering at a conflict resolution camp in Ireland during “The Troubles.” While the camp boasted notable successes in the form of intergroup friendships, it was also characterized by a colossal failure when a fight broke out at the end of the camp, resulting in a massive partisan brawl. Emile was left wondering what affect this program, and programs like it, actually have on partisan attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. These questions, examined through the lenses both of neuroscience and education, have inspired his current research program at MIT.
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Ulco Visser

In 2004, Ulco retired from a successful business career to launch and run The Impact Foundation. Ulco’s goal is to introduce proven inner practices into the educational mainstream. By working at the systems-level, Ulco architects collaborations between schoolteachers, research scientists and other stakeholders. Ulco’s business experience spans the fields of travel, hospitality, and medical education. From 1991-2004, Ulco was the Chairman, Executive Vice President and COO of Medical World Conferences, a company that organized a range of conferences and continuing medical education. Previously, Ulco served in multiple leadership roles at Intrav, serving the upscale travel market with customized tours to exotic global destinations. Ulco began his career in a range of management positions at the Fairmont, Hilton, and Marriott hotel chains. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Ulco counts several failed start-ups as part of the journey as well. A native of the Netherlands, Ulco has lived in the United States since 1982. He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
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Jan Fuller

Jan retired in 2018 as senior digital forensics investigator for the Redmond Police Department in Washington State and is pursuing projects related to improving law enforcement capabilities related to digital crime. She began conducting forensic examinations in 2003 and fondly recalls the days when 1 GB was a lot of data. She has analyzed data from thousands of electronic devices related to a wide nature of crime types. She is a member of IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) and serves on the Computer Crime and Digital Evidence Committee. She serves on the Board for CTIN (Computer Technology Investigators Northwest) and is certified by IACIS (International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists) and FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) to conduct digital forensic investigations. She enjoys coaching and mentoring students who are pursuing careers in the field of digital forensics.
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Scheduler

For administrative assistance send an email: "ea (at) thecenter dot mit dot edu" For all other inquiries send email: "info (at) thecenter dot mit dot edu"

PROGRAM COORDINATORS & TEACHING FELLOWS

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Davide Zaccagnini

Davide Zaccagnini has worked as the Director of Medical Informatics at Nuance Communications. Trained as a surgeon he soon realized how strongly doctors’ performance depended not only on their skills, but on quality and timeliness of the clinical information available to them. He has been researching at MIT on systems to structure medical knowledge, applying artificial intelligence in the clinical practice to help physicians make better decisions and avoid preventable errors. He served as Advisory Board member of the World Wide Web consortium, defining data interoperability standards for the health care and life science industries. At the European Commission he has been repeatedly an invited expert evaluating eHealth research grants. After MIT, he joined Language and Computing as VP of Product Management and in his currently work at Nuance he brings to hospitals around the world advanced IT systems to solve the most challenging problems in healthcare. He has authored medical and bio-informatics publications and a book on clinical decision support systems. He keeps publishing and speaking at national and international conferences. He’s writing a book on personal responsibilities and the role of physicians in the face of uncertainty, complexity and increasing fragmentation of modern medicine.

Davide Zaccagnini

Erica Dawson

Erica Dawson is a Director of Leadership Programs at Cornell University’s College of Engineering. In 2010 she joined the Dalai Lama Center of Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, where she directs the Program on Organizational and Executive Ethics. Previously she was Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, where she taught her popular leadership and negotiation courses to executive and MBA students for 9 years. She has coached leaders in executive education programs at Yale, UC-San Diego, Cornell, and Wharton. Dr. Dawson’s research focuses on motivated reasoning, or the ways in which people’s decision-making may be biased by their desires for one conclusion or course of action over another. She has examined these processes in the contexts of health decision-making, reasoning about climate change, project planning, ethical reasoning, and executive decision-making. Her most recent work with colleagues proposes a model of leadership built on the four pillars of knowledge, experience, insight, and courage.

Erica Dawson

Rodrigo Canales

Rodrigo Canales researches the role of institutions in entrepreneurship and economic development. Specifically, Rodrigo’s work seeks to understand how individuals purposefully enact organizational and institutional change. In particular, Rodrigo explores how individuals’ backgrounds, professional identities, and organizational positions affect how they relate to existing structures and the strategies they pursue to change them. His work builds on the different traditions of institutional theory and contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allow institutions to operate and change.Rodrigo has done work in entrepreneurial finance and microfinance. As he continues his work on microfinance he is also conducting research in the institutional complexities of renewable energy and the institutional implications of the Mexican war on drugs. Rodrigo teaches the Innovator Perspective at Yale SOM; he sits in the steering committee of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT; and he advises several startups in Mexico that seek to improve the financing environment for small firms.

Rodrigo Canales

Rodrigo Teles

Rodrigo Teles is a social entrepreneur going through one of the most transformative experiences of his life: being a full time parent and educator. After dedicating the past fifteen years to social change in Brazil and leading two of the country’s most admired not-for-profit organisations, Rodrigo quit everything and dove deep intIo the experience of life-schooling his both sons — Pedro (four years) and Lucas (one and a half years), but, most importantly, himself. Rodrigo is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Kauffman Fellow, and a Teaching Fellow at the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, where he coordinates the Transformative Teachers Program. Rodrigo is also pursuing his self-designed Master of Education in Human Excellence, focusing his studies on the concept of unconditional love – a love that exists regardless of changing circumstances and transcends desire and concern for self.

Rodrigo Teles

María Martínez-Agüero

María Martínez-Agüero is currently the Vice-Provost of Research and Innovation at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá – Colombia). She studied Biology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where she also got her Ph.D. Maria loves animals and has dedicated her working life to studying their populations in wildlife and how human populations can relate more adequately to the living environment that surrounds them. She believes that her role as a teacher is the most important role in her life, because it is through education that societies change.

María Martínez-Agüero

Dr. Alejandro Ondo-Méndez

Dr. Alejandro Ondo-Méndez is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Belongs to the research line in Translational Biochemistry and Genomic Medicine of the Clinical Research Group of the University. His research projects are aimed at identifying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer's response to anti-tumor treatments. These works combine approximations of Metabolomics, Radiobiology and Basic Biochemistry, to propose new strategies for diagnostic and treatment of cancer, from a translational research vision.

Dr. Alejandro Ondo-Méndez

Jenniffer Lopera

Jenniffer Lopera is currently a professor of pedagogy, didactics, and education at the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She got a Masters's degree in Social Anthropology and she is currently in the final stage of her Ph.D. in Education program. Jenniffer is a curious woman, enthusiastic about new experiences, people, places or knowledge. She is passionate about rock and classical music, yoga, and dancing salsa.

Jenniffer Lopera

Rafa Mendez

Rafa Mendez, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the Universidad del Rosario. Rafael, has published multiple papers on education and technology. His line of research considers applied mathematics, technology, educational and social justice. Rafa has a keen eye to gaze the world with a critical but yet optimistic lens.

Rafa Mendez

Lina Ascencio

Lina Ascencio is currently the Coordinator of the Center for Leadership and Startegy at the Universidad del Rosario where she also graduated from her Bachelors in Philosophy and Political Science. She also holds a master's degree in Law, Economics and Management from Sciences Po Bordeaux. She was an activist in the Colombia's peace deal movement and is convinced that memory and identity recognition are fundamental for peace building. This work lead her to work with peace leaders and students in memory initiatives. In her free time she loves to read and to be in nature as it helps her open her mind to other identities.

Lina Ascencio

Iliana Páez

Iliana Páez PhD in Management and Magister in Organizational Studies of Universidad de los Andes, MBA of Universidad Externado de Colombia. Associate Professor at the School of Business of Universidad del Rosario and Director of the Leadership and Organizational Behavior Research Line. Trained in Transpersonal Psychology (SASANA) and certified facilitator of Pachamama Alliance, an NGO that promotes a world vision that honors and supports life. Trainer in leadership and executive competencies. Main research and teaching topics: ethical leadership, business ethics, ethical decision-making, justice, and organizational behavior.

Iliana Páez

Marina González

Marina is the project coordinator at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Mexico. She is part of the Open Government Fellowship of the Organization of American States (OAS) and holds a certification from the World Bank in Open Innovation from ESADE University in Barcelona. Marina has been a speaker and workshop facilitator at various national and international forums on the topics of open government, facilitation and collaboration. She has a degree in Political Science and Public Management from ITESO and was Program Director of PIDES Social Innovation (now C-Minds).

Marina González

Roberta Pittore

Roberta Pittore is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management in the Managerial Communication group. The focus of her career has been on exploring how communication fosters understanding and influences decision making in the workplace. In addition to her classroom teaching, she has been a faculty mentor with MIT Sloan’s Action Learning Global Entrepreneurship Lab since 2010 advising student teams on management projects in 12 countries primarily in Asia and South America. Her international experience also includes the role of faculty lead for Study Tours to South Korea, Brazil, Mongolia, China, Argentina, Chile, Israel, South Africa, Rwanda and Tanzania. In addition to G-lab, she advises Action Learning teams in the Enterprise Management track which is designed to give first year MBA candidates hands-on exposure to Strategy, Operations and Marketing. She has taught Communication, Negotiation, and Leadership during Sloan Innovation Period, coached 360 Leadership in conjunction with MIT’s Leadership Center and worked with MIT’s Office of Minority Education’s EDGE Program. Prior to her teaching career she held executive positions in finance and marketing. She’s is also a Teaching Fellow at The Center.

Roberta Pittore

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Davide Zaccagnini

Davide Zaccagnini has worked as the Director of Medical Informatics at Nuance Communications. Trained as a surgeon he soon realized how strongly doctors’ performance depended not only on their skills, but on quality and timeliness of the clinical information available to them. He has been researching at MIT on systems to structure medical knowledge, applying artificial intelligence in the clinical practice to help physicians make better decisions and avoid preventable errors. He served as Advisory Board member of the World Wide Web consortium, defining data interoperability standards for the health care and life science industries. At the European Commission he has been repeatedly an invited expert evaluating eHealth research grants. After MIT, he joined Language and Computing as VP of Product Management and in his currently work at Nuance he brings to hospitals around the world advanced IT systems to solve the most challenging problems in healthcare. He has authored medical and bio-informatics publications and a book on clinical decision support systems. He keeps publishing and speaking at national and international conferences. He’s writing a book on personal responsibilities and the role of physicians in the face of uncertainty, complexity and increasing fragmentation of modern medicine.
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Erica Dawson

Erica Dawson is a Director of Leadership Programs at Cornell University’s College of Engineering. In 2010 she joined the Dalai Lama Center of Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, where she directs the Program on Organizational and Executive Ethics. Previously she was Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, where she taught her popular leadership and negotiation courses to executive and MBA students for 9 years. She has coached leaders in executive education programs at Yale, UC-San Diego, Cornell, and Wharton. Dr. Dawson’s research focuses on motivated reasoning, or the ways in which people’s decision-making may be biased by their desires for one conclusion or course of action over another. She has examined these processes in the contexts of health decision-making, reasoning about climate change, project planning, ethical reasoning, and executive decision-making. Her most recent work with colleagues proposes a model of leadership built on the four pillars of knowledge, experience, insight, and courage.
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Rodrigo Canales

Rodrigo Canales researches the role of institutions in entrepreneurship and economic development. Specifically, Rodrigo’s work seeks to understand how individuals purposefully enact organizational and institutional change. In particular, Rodrigo explores how individuals’ backgrounds, professional identities, and organizational positions affect how they relate to existing structures and the strategies they pursue to change them. His work builds on the different traditions of institutional theory and contributes to a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that allow institutions to operate and change.Rodrigo has done work in entrepreneurial finance and microfinance. As he continues his work on microfinance he is also conducting research in the institutional complexities of renewable energy and the institutional implications of the Mexican war on drugs. Rodrigo teaches the Innovator Perspective at Yale SOM; he sits in the steering committee of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT; and he advises several startups in Mexico that seek to improve the financing environment for small firms.
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Rodrigo Teles

Rodrigo Teles is a social entrepreneur going through one of the most transformative experiences of his life: being a full time parent and educator. After dedicating the past fifteen years to social change in Brazil and leading two of the country’s most admired not-for-profit organisations, Rodrigo quit everything and dove deep intIo the experience of life-schooling his both sons — Pedro (four years) and Lucas (one and a half years), but, most importantly, himself. Rodrigo is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a Kauffman Fellow, and a Teaching Fellow at the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, where he coordinates the Transformative Teachers Program. Rodrigo is also pursuing his self-designed Master of Education in Human Excellence, focusing his studies on the concept of unconditional love – a love that exists regardless of changing circumstances and transcends desire and concern for self.
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María Martínez-Agüero

María Martínez-Agüero is currently the Vice-Provost of Research and Innovation at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá – Colombia). She studied Biology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where she also got her Ph.D. Maria loves animals and has dedicated her working life to studying their populations in wildlife and how human populations can relate more adequately to the living environment that surrounds them. She believes that her role as a teacher is the most important role in her life, because it is through education that societies change.
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Dr. Alejandro Ondo-Méndez

Dr. Alejandro Ondo-Méndez is an Associate Professor in the Biochemistry Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Belongs to the research line in Translational Biochemistry and Genomic Medicine of the Clinical Research Group of the University. His research projects are aimed at identifying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer's response to anti-tumor treatments. These works combine approximations of Metabolomics, Radiobiology and Basic Biochemistry, to propose new strategies for diagnostic and treatment of cancer, from a translational research vision.
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Jenniffer Lopera

Jenniffer Lopera is currently a professor of pedagogy, didactics, and education at the School of Human Sciences at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia). She got a Masters's degree in Social Anthropology and she is currently in the final stage of her Ph.D. in Education program. Jenniffer is a curious woman, enthusiastic about new experiences, people, places or knowledge. She is passionate about rock and classical music, yoga, and dancing salsa.
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Rafa Mendez

Rafa Mendez, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at the Universidad del Rosario. Rafael, has published multiple papers on education and technology. His line of research considers applied mathematics, technology, educational and social justice. Rafa has a keen eye to gaze the world with a critical but yet optimistic lens.
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Lina Ascencio

Lina Ascencio is currently the Coordinator of the Center for Leadership and Startegy at the Universidad del Rosario where she also graduated from her Bachelors in Philosophy and Political Science. She also holds a master's degree in Law, Economics and Management from Sciences Po Bordeaux. She was an activist in the Colombia's peace deal movement and is convinced that memory and identity recognition are fundamental for peace building. This work lead her to work with peace leaders and students in memory initiatives. In her free time she loves to read and to be in nature as it helps her open her mind to other identities.
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Iliana Páez

Iliana Páez PhD in Management and Magister in Organizational Studies of Universidad de los Andes, MBA of Universidad Externado de Colombia. Associate Professor at the School of Business of Universidad del Rosario and Director of the Leadership and Organizational Behavior Research Line. Trained in Transpersonal Psychology (SASANA) and certified facilitator of Pachamama Alliance, an NGO that promotes a world vision that honors and supports life. Trainer in leadership and executive competencies. Main research and teaching topics: ethical leadership, business ethics, ethical decision-making, justice, and organizational behavior.
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Marina González

Marina is the project coordinator at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) in Mexico. She is part of the Open Government Fellowship of the Organization of American States (OAS) and holds a certification from the World Bank in Open Innovation from ESADE University in Barcelona. Marina has been a speaker and workshop facilitator at various national and international forums on the topics of open government, facilitation and collaboration. She has a degree in Political Science and Public Management from ITESO and was Program Director of PIDES Social Innovation (now C-Minds).
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Roberta Pittore

Roberta Pittore is a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management in the Managerial Communication group. The focus of her career has been on exploring how communication fosters understanding and influences decision making in the workplace. In addition to her classroom teaching, she has been a faculty mentor with MIT Sloan’s Action Learning Global Entrepreneurship Lab since 2010 advising student teams on management projects in 12 countries primarily in Asia and South America. Her international experience also includes the role of faculty lead for Study Tours to South Korea, Brazil, Mongolia, China, Argentina, Chile, Israel, South Africa, Rwanda and Tanzania. In addition to G-lab, she advises Action Learning teams in the Enterprise Management track which is designed to give first year MBA candidates hands-on exposure to Strategy, Operations and Marketing. She has taught Communication, Negotiation, and Leadership during Sloan Innovation Period, coached 360 Leadership in conjunction with MIT’s Leadership Center and worked with MIT’s Office of Minority Education’s EDGE Program. Prior to her teaching career she held executive positions in finance and marketing. She’s is also a Teaching Fellow at The Center.

CYL & YPL GROUP

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Brigid Sullivan

Brigid Sullivan joined WGBH in 1978 and was appointed Vice President in 1980. Under her leadership, WGBH has won every major honor for children’s media, educational programming, and new-media content, including more than 30 Emmy Awards. WGBH is the single largest source of children’s programs seen nationally on PBS and the Web, and Sullivan is responsible for the creation of such highly regarded productions as Curious George (the No. 1 show on TV for preschoolers), Arthur, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Martha Speaks, Between the Lions, Design Squad and Design Squad Nation, Postcards from Buster, Peep and the Big Wide World, and Zoom. She has overseen the production of the most popular telecourses of all time (French in Action, Destinos, Misunderstood Minds) and was executive in charge ofInvitation to World Literature. She served as executive producer of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (turning author Michael Sandel’s hugely popular Harvard University course into a hugely popular series on public television and the Web) and Poetry Everywhere with Garrison Keillor (an innovative effort to bring poetry to a wider audience, online and on TV). She also initiated Teachers’ Domain, WGBH’s free online digital library of media resources, correlated to state and national standards, which is scaling new heights as part of PBS LearningMedia. Formerly also charged with overseeing WGBH’s new-media and media access activities, Sullivan launched WGBH’s efforts in broadband and interactive media (including smartphone and iPad apps—among them, the vocabulary-building Martha Speaks Dog Party—and creative partnerships with Apple, Microsoft, and others) and led WGBH to become the largest supplier of content to pbs.org, one of the most popular dot-orgs in the world. Sullivan dramatically expanded WGBH’s commitment to ensuring that the 36 million Americans with hearing or vision impairments have access to popular media on public and commercial television, on the Web, in movie theaters, and more.In the two decades that Sullivan led WGBH’s strategic planning efforts, the organization realized a sixfold increase in revenues from $30M to $180M and grew from 300 employees to more than 1,000. Sullivan’s achievements have earned her numerous honors, including the New England Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and induction in the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers. She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Thomas More College of Fordham University.

Brigid Sullivan

Tenzin Rabga

Tenzin Rabga was born and brought up in India. He studied at the Tibetan Children’s Village School till his 10th grade, after which he completed his two years of high school from the United World College Mahindra College in the southern Indian city of Pune. Currently he is a senior in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tenzin Rabga

Scot Osterweil

Scot Osterweil is the Creative Director of the Education Arcade and a research director in the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program. He is a designer of award-winning educational games, working in both academic and commercial environments, and his work has focused on what is authentically playful in challenging academic subjects. He has designed games for computers, handheld devices, and multi-player on-line environments. He is the creator of the acclaimed Zoombinisseries of math and logic games, and leads a number of projects in the Education Arcade, including the MIT/Smithsonian curated game, Vanished (environmental science), Labyrinth (math), Kids Survey Network (data and statistics), Caduceus(medical science), iCue (history and civics) and the Hewlett Foundation’s Open Language Learning Initiative (ESL). He is a founding member of the Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org).

Scot Osterweil

Peter Stidwill

Peter Stidwill creates educational games and digital learning products. He is Executive Producer at FableVision, overseeing the production of multiple animations, games, websites, videos, and museum exhibits. Peter previously worked at the Learning Games Network, a non-profit spin-off of the MIT Education Arcade and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Games+Learning+Society program, he produced the award-winning ethical-thinking game ‘Quandary’, and ‘Playful Learning’, an initiative to catalyze the use of game based learning in schools. Peter has also worked at the UK Parliament, where he developed the multi award-winning civics games ‘MP For A Week’ and ‘MyUK’, and at the BBC on a range of formal and informal education projects, including the Digital Curriculum (‘BBC Jam’) and Science and Nature Online. Peter holds a B.A. and M.Eng. from Cambridge University (UK), where he created an online science outreach initiative – an extension to his engineering masters dissertation in which he specialized in digital learning.

Peter Stidwill

Lacey Hilliard

Lacey Hilliard is a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development. She earned a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and both her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, she is Project Manager of the Arthur Interactive Media Study and leads the Quandary and Project360 research. Lacey is interested in examining how children’s and adolescents’ engagement with media and technology can help promote positive development in individuals, improve peer relationships, and foster positive school climates. A second focus of her research is on the social cognitive development of attitudes and how children process and respond to information about social groups (e.g., gender, race). Her doctoral work focused on children’s fairness reasoning about gender within parent-child conversations.

Lacey Hilliard

Laura Trudel

Laura Trudel comes to The Center after 32 years as a Senior Technical Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering. She has extensive experience as a laboratory and project manager and has facilitated communication between collaborators and managed multiple project initiatives. A specialist in cell culture and hybridoma production, she provided technical support, experimental design expertise, and mentorship to undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows and visiting scientists. During her time at MIT she has trained many future scientists and physicians. In her role at the Center she hopes to continue to inspire future leaders and scientists throughout the world.

Laura Trudel

Charlotte Duncan

Charlotte Duncan is the Associate Director of Product Development for Learning Games Network, a non-profit that creates award-winning educational games. At LGN, she leads the game data dashboard initiative, and is writing an episode on cyber-bullying for the award-winning ethical thinking game, Quandary. Duncan holds a master’s in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.S. in Cognitive Studies from Vanderbilt University. In her free time, Duncan consults on studies exploring the affects of touchscreen apps on children’s learning and development.

Charlotte Duncan

Alisha Panjwani

Alisha Panjwani is a designer and educator exploring experiential and experimental ways of integrating wellness, play, art, storytelling and interactive technologies to create participatory learning practices. Her work focuses on nurturing children’s creative confidence with new technologies and encouraging their involvement in creative acts within their communities. She completed her MS in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a research assistant in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Before coming to the MIT Media Lab she was a Design and Research Associate at Project Vision, an international research collective in India that focuses on developing instructional strategies and technology-related tools that foster creative cognitive architectures in young children from urban poor communities.

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Brigid Sullivan

Brigid Sullivan joined WGBH in 1978 and was appointed Vice President in 1980. Under her leadership, WGBH has won every major honor for children’s media, educational programming, and new-media content, including more than 30 Emmy Awards. WGBH is the single largest source of children’s programs seen nationally on PBS and the Web, and Sullivan is responsible for the creation of such highly regarded productions as Curious George (the No. 1 show on TV for preschoolers), Arthur, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Martha Speaks, Between the Lions, Design Squad and Design Squad Nation, Postcards from Buster, Peep and the Big Wide World, and Zoom. She has overseen the production of the most popular telecourses of all time (French in Action, Destinos, Misunderstood Minds) and was executive in charge ofInvitation to World Literature. She served as executive producer of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? (turning author Michael Sandel’s hugely popular Harvard University course into a hugely popular series on public television and the Web) and Poetry Everywhere with Garrison Keillor (an innovative effort to bring poetry to a wider audience, online and on TV). She also initiated Teachers’ Domain, WGBH’s free online digital library of media resources, correlated to state and national standards, which is scaling new heights as part of PBS LearningMedia. Formerly also charged with overseeing WGBH’s new-media and media access activities, Sullivan launched WGBH’s efforts in broadband and interactive media (including smartphone and iPad apps—among them, the vocabulary-building Martha Speaks Dog Party—and creative partnerships with Apple, Microsoft, and others) and led WGBH to become the largest supplier of content to pbs.org, one of the most popular dot-orgs in the world. Sullivan dramatically expanded WGBH’s commitment to ensuring that the 36 million Americans with hearing or vision impairments have access to popular media on public and commercial television, on the Web, in movie theaters, and more.In the two decades that Sullivan led WGBH’s strategic planning efforts, the organization realized a sixfold increase in revenues from $30M to $180M and grew from 300 employees to more than 1,000. Sullivan’s achievements have earned her numerous honors, including the New England Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and induction in the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers. She holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Thomas More College of Fordham University.
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Tenzin Rabga

Tenzin Rabga was born and brought up in India. He studied at the Tibetan Children’s Village School till his 10th grade, after which he completed his two years of high school from the United World College Mahindra College in the southern Indian city of Pune. Currently he is a senior in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Scot Osterweil

Scot Osterweil is the Creative Director of the Education Arcade and a research director in the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Program. He is a designer of award-winning educational games, working in both academic and commercial environments, and his work has focused on what is authentically playful in challenging academic subjects. He has designed games for computers, handheld devices, and multi-player on-line environments. He is the creator of the acclaimed Zoombinisseries of math and logic games, and leads a number of projects in the Education Arcade, including the MIT/Smithsonian curated game, Vanished (environmental science), Labyrinth (math), Kids Survey Network (data and statistics), Caduceus(medical science), iCue (history and civics) and the Hewlett Foundation’s Open Language Learning Initiative (ESL). He is a founding member of the Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org).
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Peter Stidwill

Peter Stidwill creates educational games and digital learning products. He is Executive Producer at FableVision, overseeing the production of multiple animations, games, websites, videos, and museum exhibits. Peter previously worked at the Learning Games Network, a non-profit spin-off of the MIT Education Arcade and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Games+Learning+Society program, he produced the award-winning ethical-thinking game ‘Quandary’, and ‘Playful Learning’, an initiative to catalyze the use of game based learning in schools. Peter has also worked at the UK Parliament, where he developed the multi award-winning civics games ‘MP For A Week’ and ‘MyUK’, and at the BBC on a range of formal and informal education projects, including the Digital Curriculum (‘BBC Jam’) and Science and Nature Online. Peter holds a B.A. and M.Eng. from Cambridge University (UK), where he created an online science outreach initiative – an extension to his engineering masters dissertation in which he specialized in digital learning.
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Lacey Hilliard

Lacey Hilliard is a Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development. She earned a B.S. in Psychology and a B.A. in Communication Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and both her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, she is Project Manager of the Arthur Interactive Media Study and leads the Quandary and Project360 research. Lacey is interested in examining how children’s and adolescents’ engagement with media and technology can help promote positive development in individuals, improve peer relationships, and foster positive school climates. A second focus of her research is on the social cognitive development of attitudes and how children process and respond to information about social groups (e.g., gender, race). Her doctoral work focused on children’s fairness reasoning about gender within parent-child conversations.
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Laura Trudel

Laura Trudel comes to The Center after 32 years as a Senior Technical Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering. She has extensive experience as a laboratory and project manager and has facilitated communication between collaborators and managed multiple project initiatives. A specialist in cell culture and hybridoma production, she provided technical support, experimental design expertise, and mentorship to undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral fellows and visiting scientists. During her time at MIT she has trained many future scientists and physicians. In her role at the Center she hopes to continue to inspire future leaders and scientists throughout the world.
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Charlotte Duncan

Charlotte Duncan is the Associate Director of Product Development for Learning Games Network, a non-profit that creates award-winning educational games. At LGN, she leads the game data dashboard initiative, and is writing an episode on cyber-bullying for the award-winning ethical thinking game, Quandary. Duncan holds a master’s in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.S. in Cognitive Studies from Vanderbilt University. In her free time, Duncan consults on studies exploring the affects of touchscreen apps on children’s learning and development.
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Alisha Panjwani

Alisha Panjwani is a designer and educator exploring experiential and experimental ways of integrating wellness, play, art, storytelling and interactive technologies to create participatory learning practices. Her work focuses on nurturing children’s creative confidence with new technologies and encouraging their involvement in creative acts within their communities. She completed her MS in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked as a research assistant in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Before coming to the MIT Media Lab she was a Design and Research Associate at Project Vision, an international research collective in India that focuses on developing instructional strategies and technology-related tools that foster creative cognitive architectures in young children from urban poor communities.

VOCAL VIBRATIONS GROUP

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Tod Machover

Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. An influential composer, he has been praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries; his music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world’s most important performers and ensembles. In 1995, he received a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” one of France’s highest cultural honors, and in 1998 he was awarded the first DigiGlobe Prize from the German government. He has composed five operas and is the inventor of Hyperinstruments, a technology that uses smart computers to augment virtuosity. Hyperinstruments have been used by performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Prince, and Peter Gabriel. Machover is also the creator of the Toy Symphony, an international music performance and education project. His research group is currently examining ways to use music in therapy for emotionally and physically challenged individuals.Machover’s opera Death and the Powers premiered in Monte-Carlo in the fall 2010; the project was developed by a creative team of international artists, designers, writers, and theatrical luminaries, as well as by an interdisciplinary team of Media Lab graduate and undergraduate students. Scored for a small ensemble of specially designed Hyperinstruments, Powers features a robotic, animatronic stage—the first of its kind—that gradually “comes alive” as the opera’s main character. Powers was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Machover, who was formerly director of musical research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM institute in Paris, received both his BA and MA from the Juilliard School in New York.

Tod Machover

Elly Jessop

Elly Jessop: I am a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where I am a member of the Opera of the Future research group under Professor Tod Machover. My current research work explores the intersection of performance, gesture, and music. I am especially interested in creating new tools for analyzing and working with expressive movement in the context of live performance. I also focus on the ways that technology and the arts can combine to create new means of expression and qualities of experience.My background is in the performing arts (including stage and costume design, choreography, stage direction, and choral conducting), and computer science. I graduated from Amherst College in the spring of 2008 with a double major in Computer Science and Theater and Dance and began my studies at the Media Lab in the fall of 2008.

Elly Jessop

Rébecca Kleinberger

Rébecca Kleinberger is a PhD candidate in the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab under the direction of Professor Tod Machover. Her work focusses on the human voice and how to create tools and experiences to help people discover themselves through the unicity and expressivity of their voice in self reflexive practices. She graduated from École National des Arts et Métiers in Paris with a Masters of Mechanical Engineering and from University College London with a Master of Research in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualization after receiving an equivalent BS in Math and Engineering.

Rébecca Kleinberger

Charles Holbrow

Media Artist, JavaScript Engineer, Audio Wizard. Researcher with the Opera of the Future at the MIT Media Lab. Creator of Pixel Aether – the open source collaborative video game engine for the web. Creative problem solver with a background in research, music, and software development. Designed audio effects and music technology at the MIT Media Lab. Coded DSP in C for processing 3D video in the frequency domain at the MIT George Harrison Spectroscopy Lab. Compounded the efficacy of my team as an Audio Tools Specialist at music-video-game developer, Seven45 Studios. JavaScript expert with experience in too many other programming languages. I am an alumnus of Hack Reactor in San Francisco. I have a Bachelor of Music and Sound Recording Technology Degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

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Tod Machover

Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. An influential composer, he has been praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries; his music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world’s most important performers and ensembles. In 1995, he received a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” one of France’s highest cultural honors, and in 1998 he was awarded the first DigiGlobe Prize from the German government. He has composed five operas and is the inventor of Hyperinstruments, a technology that uses smart computers to augment virtuosity. Hyperinstruments have been used by performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Prince, and Peter Gabriel. Machover is also the creator of the Toy Symphony, an international music performance and education project. His research group is currently examining ways to use music in therapy for emotionally and physically challenged individuals.Machover’s opera Death and the Powers premiered in Monte-Carlo in the fall 2010; the project was developed by a creative team of international artists, designers, writers, and theatrical luminaries, as well as by an interdisciplinary team of Media Lab graduate and undergraduate students. Scored for a small ensemble of specially designed Hyperinstruments, Powers features a robotic, animatronic stage—the first of its kind—that gradually “comes alive” as the opera’s main character. Powers was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Machover, who was formerly director of musical research at Pierre Boulez’s IRCAM institute in Paris, received both his BA and MA from the Juilliard School in New York.
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Elly Jessop

Elly Jessop: I am a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where I am a member of the Opera of the Future research group under Professor Tod Machover. My current research work explores the intersection of performance, gesture, and music. I am especially interested in creating new tools for analyzing and working with expressive movement in the context of live performance. I also focus on the ways that technology and the arts can combine to create new means of expression and qualities of experience.My background is in the performing arts (including stage and costume design, choreography, stage direction, and choral conducting), and computer science. I graduated from Amherst College in the spring of 2008 with a double major in Computer Science and Theater and Dance and began my studies at the Media Lab in the fall of 2008.
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Rébecca Kleinberger

Rébecca Kleinberger is a PhD candidate in the Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab under the direction of Professor Tod Machover. Her work focusses on the human voice and how to create tools and experiences to help people discover themselves through the unicity and expressivity of their voice in self reflexive practices. She graduated from École National des Arts et Métiers in Paris with a Masters of Mechanical Engineering and from University College London with a Master of Research in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualization after receiving an equivalent BS in Math and Engineering.
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Charles Holbrow

Media Artist, JavaScript Engineer, Audio Wizard. Researcher with the Opera of the Future at the MIT Media Lab. Creator of Pixel Aether – the open source collaborative video game engine for the web. Creative problem solver with a background in research, music, and software development. Designed audio effects and music technology at the MIT Media Lab. Coded DSP in C for processing 3D video in the frequency domain at the MIT George Harrison Spectroscopy Lab. Compounded the efficacy of my team as an Audio Tools Specialist at music-video-game developer, Seven45 Studios. JavaScript expert with experience in too many other programming languages. I am an alumnus of Hack Reactor in San Francisco. I have a Bachelor of Music and Sound Recording Technology Degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

INTERNS & RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

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Kinga Tshering

Kinga Tshering is a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Bhutan with experience in national legislation and politics, organization building and restructuring in the energy sector. He looks forward to making a profound impact and transformative change on society through activism in democracy, innovation in governance, and integration of the HAPPINESS index into mainstream economic theory and development in emerging nations. Kinga is planning to use his studies in multifaith practices at Harvard Divinity School to navigate through political campaign conflict and competing constituency demands and beliefs that could otherwise form deep political cleavages. He recently founded the Institute of Happiness (IoH) in Bhutan to further promote his cause through policy dialogue and leadership training. Kinga was an Engineering Fulbright Fellow at the University of Kansas, and a Masters in Dispute Resolution Fellow at the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution while pursuing his Master’s in Business Administration at Pepperdine University. He was a Ford Foundation Mason Fellow in the MPA program at Harvard’s JFK School of Government and is currently enrolled in the M.Div program at Harvard Divinity School.

Kinga Tshering

Kushal Kumar

Kushal is a junior undergraduate at IIT Madras, India. Pursuing a major in biological sciences, he is passionate about education, ecology and sustainability. He believes that lasting changes can be initiated the best through innovative designing and entrepreneurship. He is a part of an initiative that seeks to enable science learning in native languages across India.

Kushal Kumar

Connor Feliu

Connor is a rising senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Philosophy with a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies. Connor is also a member of Le Moyne’s Integral Honors Program and is currently working on an honors thesis critiquing the pathologizing approach postmodern scholar take in attempting to interpret the experience of the thirteenth century Italian mystic Angela of Foligno.

Connor Feliu

Maria Musumeci

Maria Musumeci is a rising senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in psychology with minors in philosophy and applied statistics. During her time as an undergraduate Maria has developed a love for research and is currently working on an honors project that explores the relationship between perfectionism and disgust.

Maria Musumeci

Ashad Choudary

Ashad Chaoudary is an educator and is passionate for wildlife. Has served in several NGOs and a is a documentary photographer. He has a knack for creating campaigns that show smart thinking, uniform storytelling, and compelling visuals that will captivate audiences. Currently, he works for a reptile conservation society -Friends of Snakes- as an educator and volunteer.

Ashad Choudary

Stephanie Wu

Stephanie Wu is a Sophomore undergraduate student at the University of Southern California currently pursuing her Bachelors in Psychology. She grew up in Orange County, California where she developed her interests in hiking, swimming, and art.

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Kinga Tshering

Kinga Tshering is a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Bhutan with experience in national legislation and politics, organization building and restructuring in the energy sector. He looks forward to making a profound impact and transformative change on society through activism in democracy, innovation in governance, and integration of the HAPPINESS index into mainstream economic theory and development in emerging nations. Kinga is planning to use his studies in multifaith practices at Harvard Divinity School to navigate through political campaign conflict and competing constituency demands and beliefs that could otherwise form deep political cleavages. He recently founded the Institute of Happiness (IoH) in Bhutan to further promote his cause through policy dialogue and leadership training. Kinga was an Engineering Fulbright Fellow at the University of Kansas, and a Masters in Dispute Resolution Fellow at the Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution while pursuing his Master’s in Business Administration at Pepperdine University. He was a Ford Foundation Mason Fellow in the MPA program at Harvard’s JFK School of Government and is currently enrolled in the M.Div program at Harvard Divinity School.
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Kushal Kumar

Kushal is a junior undergraduate at IIT Madras, India. Pursuing a major in biological sciences, he is passionate about education, ecology and sustainability. He believes that lasting changes can be initiated the best through innovative designing and entrepreneurship. He is a part of an initiative that seeks to enable science learning in native languages across India.
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Connor Feliu

Connor is a rising senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Philosophy with a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies. Connor is also a member of Le Moyne’s Integral Honors Program and is currently working on an honors thesis critiquing the pathologizing approach postmodern scholar take in attempting to interpret the experience of the thirteenth century Italian mystic Angela of Foligno.
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Maria Musumeci

Maria Musumeci is a rising senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in psychology with minors in philosophy and applied statistics. During her time as an undergraduate Maria has developed a love for research and is currently working on an honors project that explores the relationship between perfectionism and disgust.
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Ashad Choudary

Ashad Chaoudary is an educator and is passionate for wildlife. Has served in several NGOs and a is a documentary photographer. He has a knack for creating campaigns that show smart thinking, uniform storytelling, and compelling visuals that will captivate audiences. Currently, he works for a reptile conservation society -Friends of Snakes- as an educator and volunteer.
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Stephanie Wu

Stephanie Wu is a Sophomore undergraduate student at the University of Southern California currently pursuing her Bachelors in Psychology. She grew up in Orange County, California where she developed her interests in hiking, swimming, and art.